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List of Queen's University people#Notable Queen.27s alumni

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The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The list includes notable academics, artists, businesspeople, professionals, and athletes.

Notable Queen's alumni

=Academic leaders=

  • Emajuddin Ahamed – political scientist, author, educationist & former vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
  • John Hall Archer – first president of the University of Regina{{cite web|url=http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=apsey&t=24106&d=2306|title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: John Hall Archer|work=University of Toronto Press|quote=Queen's, Ph.D. 1969}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Herbert Basser – theologian, Harvard Starr Fellow
  • Vijay Bhargava – researcher
  • David Card – economist, winner of Nobel Prize in Economics and John Bates Clark Medal{{cite web|url=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/clark_medal.htm |title=John Bates Clark Medal |year=2008 |work=American Economics Association |access-date=2008-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521122026/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/clark_medal.htm |archive-date=2008-05-21 }}
  • George Ramsay Cook – Canadian historian
  • Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of Frontier College{{cite web|url=http://www.nald.ca/info/awards/national/frontier.htm|title=Fitzpatrick Award (Frontier College)|work=National Adult Literacy database|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027052549/http://www.nald.ca/info/awards/national/frontier.htm|archive-date=2007-10-27}}
  • William Thomson Newnham – first president of Seneca College, 1967–1984
  • Frits Pannekoek (PhD 1974) – president of Athabasca University{{cite web|url=http://www.athabascau.ca/presoff/staff/fritsp.htm|title=Dr. Frits Pannekoek Biography|access-date=2008-07-14|date=2007-05-12|work=Athabasca University|quote="...completing his Ph.D. (1974)...at Queen's University."}}
  • David Siderovski – Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at University of North Texas Health Science Center (winner of ASPET John J. Abel Award)
  • Robert Sutherland – first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and first black lawyer in British North America{{cite web|url=http://www.queensu.ca/alumni/sutherland/#who|title=Robert Sutherland – Queen's Alumni|website=www.queensu.ca|access-date=30 March 2018}}
  • Shirley M. Tilghman (BSc 1968) – president of Princeton University,{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/president/biography/|title=President's Biography|work=Princeton University|access-date=2008-07-14|year=2008|quote="Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968."}} member of the board of directors of Google{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html|title=Corporate Information – Google Management|year=2008|access-date=2008-07-14}}

=Actors, film, and media=

=Business people=

=Literature and the arts=

=Military=

=Political leaders=

=Scientists=

  • Walter A. Bell B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist
  • Mustapha Ishak Boushaki (PhD 2002) – theoretical physicist
  • Norman L. Bowen B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist
  • Bill Buxton B.Mus. (1973) – computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer
  • Barbara Cade-Menun – research scientist
  • Adolfo J. de Bold – O.C. Ph.D. – emeritus professor at University of Ottawa; discovered heart hormones
  • Charles LeGeyt Fortescue – electrical engineer
  • Christine Friedenreich - cancer epidemiologist
  • James Edwin Hawley (BSc 1918, MSc 1920) – head of Geological Sciences Department (1929–1962)
  • Kenneth E. Iverson (BSc 1951) – inventor of the APL programming language, Turing Award laureate
  • Erin Johnson (PhD 2008) – theoretical chemist
  • Leon Katz, B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, founder of Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada
  • Venkatesh K. R. Kodur Ph.D. – University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and pioneer in structural fire engineering
  • Thomas Edvard Krogh M.Sc. (Geology) – geochronologist and curator of the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Harriet MacMillan (M.D., 1982) – medical academic and scientist
  • Margaret McKellar M.D. (1890), medical missionary
  • J. F. A. McManus M.D. (1938) – pathologist
  • Derek Muller (BSc 2004) – physics educator, creator and writer-host of Veritasium (YouTube channel)
  • Anthony J. Naldrett – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist {{cite web|url=http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=nabein&t=24558&d=1917|title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: Anthony J. Naldrett|work=University of Toronto Press|quote=Queen's Univ. M.Sc. 1961, Ph.D. 1964}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Kathleen I. Pritchard MD 1971 – head of oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto
  • Ian Rae B.Sc. (Eng.) (1980) – co-developer of CorelDraw software
  • Carolyn Relf (BSc 1984, PhD 1992) – geologist{{cite web|url=http://www.geology.gov.yk.ca/bios/555.html |title=Carolyn Relf, Director |publisher=Government of Yukon |access-date=9 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121034001/http://www.geology.gov.yk.ca/bios/555.html |archive-date=21 November 2015 }}
  • Jane Stewart (B.A. 1956) – neuroscientist{{Cite web|url=https://www.concordia.ca/content/concordia/en/alumni-friends/applause/search/jane-stewart.html|title=Jane Stewart|website=www.concordia.ca|access-date=2019-12-14}}
  • Julielynn Wong (M.D.) – physician, scientist and pilot{{Cite web |title=Julielynn Wong, MD MPH |url=https://exponential.singularityu.org/medicine/faculty2016/julielynn-wong/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714022001/https://exponential.singularityu.org/medicine/faculty2016/julielynn-wong/ |archive-date=2020-07-14 |access-date=2018-08-29 |website=Exponential Medicine {{!}} November 2018 |language=en-us}}

=Sports=

= Miscellaneous =

Notable faculty and affiliates

In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir Sandford Fleming, former Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Laird Borden, and former governor general of Canada Roland Michener have all served as chancellor of the university, though this is a non-academic role.

Principals

  1. Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) {{cite web|url=http://qnc.queensu.ca/Encyclopedia/p.html#Principal|title=Queen's Encyclopedia: Principal|work=Queen's University}}
  2. Rev John Machar (1846–1853)
  3. Rev James George (acting Principal 1853–1857)
  4. Rev John Cook (1857–1859)
  5. Rev William Leitch (1859–1864)
  6. Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877)
  7. Rev George Monro Grant (1877–1902)
  8. Rev Daniel Miner Gordon (1902–1916)
  9. Rev Robert Bruce Taylor (1917–1929)
  10. Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (1930–1936)
  11. Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951)
  12. William Archibald Mackintosh (1951–1961)
  13. James Alexander Corry (1961–1968)
  14. John James Deutsch (1968–1974)
  15. Ronald Lampman Watts (1974–1984)
  16. David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994)
  17. William Claude Leggett (1994–2004)
  18. Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008)
  19. Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009)
  20. Daniel Woolf (2009–2019)
  21. Patrick Deane (2019–present)

Chancellors

  1. Rev John Cook (1877–1879) {{cite web|url=http://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/c/chancellors|title=Queen's Encyclopedia: Chancellor|work=Queen's University at Kingston}}
  2. Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915)
  3. James Douglas (1915–1918)
  4. Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923)
  5. Sir Robert Laird Borden (1924–1929)
  6. James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939)
  7. Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958)
  8. John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973)
  9. Roland Michener (1973–1980)
  10. Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996)
  11. Peter Lougheed (1996–2002)
  12. A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008)
  13. David A. Dodge (2008–2014)
  14. Jim Leech (2014–2021)
  15. Murray Sinclair (2021–2024)

Rectors

  1. Rev S. W. Dyde (1913)
  2. James L. Robertson (1916)
  3. Brigadier General A. E. Ross (1920)
  4. William H. Coverdale (1925)
  5. Oscar D. Skelton (1929)
  6. R. B. Bennett (1935)
  7. Norman McLeod Rogers (1937)
  8. The Earl of Athlone (1940)
  9. BK Sandwell (1944)
  10. Leonard W. Brockington (1947)
  11. M. Grattan O'Leary (1968)
  12. Richard Alan Broadbent (1969, first student Rector{{cite web |url=http://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/r/rector.html |title=Queen's Encyclopedia - Rector |access-date=2012-06-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826162845/http://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/r/rector.html |archive-date=2014-08-26 }})
  13. Gary Michael Gannage (1972)
  14. Bruce W. Trotter (1974)
  15. Morris Chochla (1976)
  16. Hugh Christie (1978)
  17. Jeremy Freedman (1980)
  18. James Harris (1982)
  19. Richard Powers (1984)
  20. Kelley McKinnon (1986)
  21. Charis Kelso (1988)
  22. Antoinette Mongillo (1990)
  23. David Baar (1992)
  24. Peter Gallant (1994)
  25. Ian Michael (1996)
  26. Michael Kealy (1998)
  27. Daniel Sahl (2000)
  28. Ahmed "KC" Kayssi (2002)
  29. Grant R.A. Bishop (2004)
  30. Johsa Marie G. Manzanilla (2006)
  31. Leora Jackson (2008)
  32. Nick Day (2010)
  33. Nick Francis (2011)
  34. Mike Young (2014)
  35. Cameron Yung (2016)
  36. Alexandra da Silva (2018)
  37. Sam Hiemstra (2020)
  38. Owen Crawford Lem (2022) {{cite web | url=https://www.queensu.ca/rector/ | title=Office of the Rector | University Rector }}

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